Putting it all together
Specialization reigns in today’s culture. Like the ancient Hindu allegory wherein blind men analyze different parts of an elephant and – literally incapable of “seeing the elephant in the middle of the room” – produce analyses too narrow to be accurate, specialized analysis and commentary are blind to the big picture.
Because all areas of our lives interact and influence each other in complex feedback loops, what’s vital is not summation, but synthesis: a broad view encompassing the whole. Most writers who can do this have “left the Matrix” to some degree.
Neil Oliver: 'It's Hard To Tell Yourself You've Been Taken For A Fool But Open Your Eyes'
- 17 August 2022It is hard to think the unthinkable – but there comes a time when there’s nothing else for it. People raised to trust the powers that be – who have assumed, like I once did, that the State,...
Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions
- 07 December 2021A Lecture by Andrew Nikiforuk Canadian author and journalist Andrew Nikiforuk addressed our overshoot reality on November 17, 2021 at the University of Victoria. It’s a brilliant must watch talk...
Unstoppable Collapse: How to Avoid the Worst
- 30 July 2021The stability of the biosphere has been in decline for centuries and in unstoppable, out of control mode for decades. This “Great Acceleration” of biospheric collapse is an easily verifiable fact....
Capitalism is Killing the Planet
- 09 June 2020From Nestle to Exxon Mobil, capitalism is destroying the planet.
Planet of the Humans
- 26 May 2020Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we...
Domino Chain Reaction
- 25 May 2019Image: FirminoGennarino Pixabay CC0 A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominoes of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts...
Derrick Jensen interview at the Earth at Risk 2014 Conference
- 17 September 2018Derrick Jensen is an activist, author, and philosopher of the environmental movement. He is known as a strong voice on the topics of ecocide, misogyny, racism, and what he calls "human supremacism."...
Arithmetic, Population and Energy
- 17 September 2018“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” ― Dr. Albert A. Bartlett , 1923-2013, Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Colorado,...